Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 November 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence

9:00 am

Mr. Jim Breslin:

The HSE can comment on the report and the recommendations. I know work is under way on that and on international involvement in that service to bring about improvement. On the specific question about the BRCA test, that was identified as a transcription error and the 300 or so positive tests are being worked through, and that will be completed. As of today, no further errors have been identified. That fits with the principle whereby, as I said, if a single issue is identified, we look to find other cases that might be relevant to that and we do a look-back process through those. It is in line with good practice. There is a serious incident team managing this in Crumlin through the children's hospital. Again, even in a situation where something like this has happened and, again, it is truly wrong and tragic in the individual circumstances, the incident management approach is to look beyond the individual circumstances into any wider risk there might be and to do a look-back through that. That is exactly what is being done in this situation. The findings to date are that it is an isolated error.

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